Soup Swap? Souptacular!

National Soup Swap Day 2009

Founder Knox Gardner points at the National Soup Swap map.

The original soup swap legend starts as follows: “In the dark times of the woolly sweater, nothing warms the soul as much as a bowl of home made soup…” Or, you know, something like that. Though it’s not so much the soul that’s warmed as the heart and the belly.

Soup Swap this year was the largest I’ve ever attended. A whopping 22 soups appeared in the middle of Dave and Carrie’s perfect new kitchen. The swapping was fierce and competitive as well known chefs in our midst delivered bribes of chocolate, tapioca, and impossible to resist home made bread.


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USA Weekend Gives Soup Swap the Love

My head still thinks we’re in Hawaii even while my heart is turning to the next adventure, Vietnam. My body, though, knows the hard cold facts: We’re in torrential rainy Seattle. Our first day back we did two things: Went to Trader Joe’s to get some groceries and stopped for pho, the soup that soothes …


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National Soup Swap Day is January 23rd, 2007

No, it’s not a joke. My post about Soup Swap was picked up at BlogHer, where it was found by the soup loving goddesses of The Gracious Bowl, a DC blog about, yes, SOUP. Inspired by our soupy goodness, they decided to host their own. Meanwhile, in Boston, the Wooden Spoon of Power was passed …


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Seattle Soup Swap

Hello, welcome! I know you’re here to read about soup swap, but stick around – it’s more than just soup at Nerd’s Eye View. You might also enjoy: To Venice for Lunch You Are Here While My Uke Gently Weeps or, who knows, maybe not. There’s stuff about cooking seafood, local and international adventures, ukulele …


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